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I hate Trump but I'd be open to an Operation Just Cause 2.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_invasion_of_Pana...

Why? Panama was a dictatorship ruled by a drugs lord in the 1980s. It's now a democratic country with competitive elections and orderly rotations of power.

Presumably the above commenter is referring to an analogous intervention in Venezuela, not Panama.

You know, you’re right and I totally missed the point.

If we want to assess the chances of a US intervention in Latin America producing good results, we should probably include the results of Operation Condor in our analysis.

I would not say that Venezuela is currently having orderly rotations of power. Since the 2015 parliamentary elections, we've seen at least one constitutional crisis and the most recent election results are disputed.

I do not particularly think it's a good idea for the US to invade in order to overthrow Maduro, but I don't want to pretend he's more ethical than he appears to be.

Trump alleges that Venezuela is a dictatorship ruled by a drug lord.

It probably is, but why should anybody in America care? All intervention will do is drive America's international reputation even further negative, and probably cause a new wave of refugees (and people opportunistically claiming to be refugees) into America.

You were talking about Operation Just Cause, which was Panama, not Venezuela.

It's extra funny because Noriega was in power in large parts due to him being useful to the US/CIA.

Just like the Taliban.

sure, we can send you on over

I've been to Afghanistan twice. Now I'm old.

And that worked out so well that you want more US-led wars?

Afghanistan will do that to you

We don’t need to depose Maduro. We need him, ironically, to stop creating problems outside his borders.

That means to withdraw from the Guyanese border. And to do something about his drug and emigration problems. The former could be achieved from offshore. The latter requires boots on the ground.

All of which is irrelevant because the only reason this is happening is to deflect from Epstein and and the deteriorating economy.

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